Human-curated news about generative AI for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Try This: Use AI to generate scenario examples
If you often use examples and scenarios in your lectures, AI can refresh them or generate new ones quickly.
BUT: Characters in gen AI scenarios can display a bias toward western culture. To mitigate, add this to your prompt “Ensure that the name used is gender inclusive and representative of a diverse cultural/ethnic background” (Mirowsky, 2024)
Learn More:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00844/suppl_file/ed4c00844_si_001.pdf
Google Releases New “Learn About” AI Tool
The tool “helps you explore academic topics & concepts.” The layout resembles a textbook, includes additional audio and video sources, and further topics are even organized by terms that Bloom’s uses under comprehension: Understand, Explain, Describe.
BUT: Learning is not saved. Once you close the page, the session is gone.
Learn More:
https://learning.google.com/experiments/learn-about
Syllabus Statements
Students want to know what is or is not allowed in using AI for a course:
1. No AI
2. AI Planning
3. AI Collaboration
4. Full AI
5. AI Exploration
Learn More: Perkins, M., Roe, J., & Furze, L. (2024). The AI Assessment Scale Revisited: A Framework for Educational Assessment (No. arXiv:2412.09029). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.09029
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